Phonetics 语音学

Exercise 1 练习1

In this exercise, you will be asked to listen to recordings of utterances spoken in MRP English and to identify whether the first sound is fricative or approximant. 请判断录音中现代标准英语发音里的第一个音是擦音还是近音。

Remember that in English, sounds such as [f, v] at the beginning of few, view or [s, z] at the beginning of Sue, zoo are examples of fricatives, while words like west, rest, lest and yes all begin with approximants (respectively [w, ɹ, l, j]). 注意：英语few、view、Sue、zoo的首辅音是擦音；英语west、rest、lest、yes的首辅音是近音。